Socket for fasteners.



D. BOURQUE. SOCKET FOR FASTENERS. APPLICATION FILED MAY 25. m8.

1,300,338. Patented Apr. 15,1919.

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27 25 lumen/52w.- fia/md Bowery-me UNrTnn STATES PATENT onnrcn.

DAVID BOURQUE, OF AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGLN'OR T0 G. W. J. MURPHYCOMPANY, OF AMESBURY', MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

5 SOCKET FOR FASTENERS.

Application filed May 25, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID BOURQUE, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Amesbury, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts,have invented an Improvement in Sockets for Fasteners, of which thefollowing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, isa specification, like characters on the drawings representing likeparts.

This invention relates to stud and socket asteners of the type used forfastening the curtains of motor cars and for similar purposes, and theobject more particularly is to provide an improved construction of thefemale member or socket.

My invention will best be understood by reference to the followingdescription of an illustrative embodiment thereof taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings wherein Figure 1 is a plan view of thefastener in assembled relation, looking to the left in Fig. 2;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 2 and provides a plan view ofthe socket member;

Fig. at is a plan of the outer element of the socket as viewed from theright in Fig. 2; and

Fig. 5 is a similar view of the inner element.

The more usual manner in which stud and socket fasteners are at presentused is to provide a socket or eyelet on a curtain or other movablemember and secure it to a stud projecting from the fixed member to whichthe curtain is to be fastened, such for example as the body of a motorcar. These projecting studs are not attractive in appearance and theysometimes catch the clothing of persons using the vehicle and tear thesame. My invention contemplates more particularly the construction of animproved form of socket which can be set flush or substantially flushwith the body of the motor car and with which a stud carried by thecurtain can be engaged.

Referring to the drawings, I show at 7 a portion of some relativelyfixed element, such for example as the body of an automobile, adapted toreceive a socket, the con- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 15, 1919.

Serial No. 236,502.

struction of which will be hereinafter more fully described, and acurtain 9 to which is secured a stud 11 adapted to be engaged with saidsocket. For purposes of illustration I have shown the stud and socketfastener as being of'the type as .shown in the patent to Fred SCarr1,038,288, Sept. 10, 1912. The particular form of fastener, however, isnot material to my invention.

The socket member here-shown embodies in its construction asubstantially cylindrical casing which may consist of an outer cup-like:member 13. Herein the wall corresponding to the bottom of the cup ispresented outwardly toward the stud 11 and is perforated to receive thesame, and the cylindrical wall corresponding to the sides of the cup isprovided with screw threads 15 which are conveniently embossed from themetal, as here shown. The cup is adapted to receive a wire jaw 17 forengagement with the stud and this may be held in place by a secondcup-like member 19, having a bottom flange 21, adapted to oppose thebottom of the first cup-like member and in cooperation therewith form achamber for receiving the jaw, and having a cylindrical flange formedwith screw threads 23 adapted to engage with interiorscrew threads onthe member 13. If the threads 15 on the member 13 are embossed asdescribed, they may be made to provide both exterior threads andinterior threads to receive the threads 23.

As shown in Fig. 5, the member 19 may be provided with openings 25toreceive a suitable spanner and there may be portions 27 struck up fromthe flange 21 thereof and adapted to engage the bottom wall of the.

outer member 13, thus to limit the telescoping movement of the twoelements and determine the depth of the jawreceiving chamber formed bythem. Herein certain of these elements are also adapted to serve toposition the jaw 17 to insure functioning of the same as described inthe Carr patent already referred to and they may fulfil similarfunctions in connection with other forms of jaws.

The socket member consisting of the parts already described beingassembled, it may be inserted in a suitable opening'in the body 7, thescrew threads 15 engaging the margin of the opening. As appears in"Figs. 3 and 41, the outer cup-like member is preferably provided withopenings 29 to receive a sui sheet metal forming "the cup 13, as alreadydescribed. The threads of the inner cuplike member-'19 will reinforcesuch'embosscd threads. I

' --.Ha.ving thus described one particular embodiment of my invention asapplied to one known type of fstud "and socket fastener,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent .is-;

Y A socket for a stud and socket fastener comprisin-g a .cup-vhkeelementhaving a base 'apertured toreoeive a stud and an eXteriorly threadedcylindrical wall, and stud-engaging means-housed inwardly of said walland presented :ald-j acen't'the aperture of the base, said socketadapted to be directly screwed into a suppor gjrnember.

2. A so'cket for a studandsocket fastener.

comprising two cup-like members one being received within the other,stud-receiving jaws between said line-miners and exterior threads on theouter member,

A socket for a stud and socket fastener comprising a cylindricalcup-like member having embossed threads on the cylindrical surfacethereof, another member received therein and having "threads fittingsaidemfront w all.

bossed -threads on the inn'ei' sidelai'icl studreceiving jaws housedbetween themembers. 4. A socket for a stud and socket fastener.

comprising a member .havinga 'front wall 5. A socket for stud and socketfastener .con'iprising a member having a front wall and a cylindrical'eXteriorly threaded .wall, an eleinent received therein and havlng aelement to engage said 7 por ion presented in opposition to said front awall to provide a aw -receiving chamber,

projections on said element to engage said front wall and jaws in saidchamberenga-ged and positioned by said projections. 6.111 combinatiomember, a sooketcaiiied thereby hflVll lg' d front plate setsubstantiailyflush with said member and aperture-d to receive a stud anda threaded hollow cylinder carried by the front plate and directlyscrewed in said with a supporting' member, the interior of the cylinderproviding a space wherein housed stud-engagmg means.

' 7. A socket for a stud and socket fastener comprising a socket having"a. wall apertured to receive a stud a flange rising from the wall, aplate interiorly fitting andrecei-ved by the flange and havingprojections cont acting with the wall thereby :to definea jaw-receivingchamber.

In testimonwhereof I have si ned m a h V name to this specification.

iDi-ivinnoURo -nf Copies "of this patent may be obtained 'for fi jvecents each, by addressing the Commissioner of 'raten-ts,

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